What will it take for you to open your eyes? Self-immolation in Israel photo.
July 14, 2012- TEL AVIV - ISRAEL. An Israeli protester set himself on fire during a rally on Saturday night marking the anniversary of a wave of demonstrations that swept the country to protest against the high cost of living and social issues.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the man in his 40s poured flammable liquid over himself at a protest in Tel Aviv and set himself on fire. He was later rushed to a hospital where he is being treated for serious burns.
The demonstrations were part of an effort to reenergise a protest movement which began last July with complaints about housing prices but quickly shifted to a wide range of social economic issues like high food costs, low wages and better education. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in the demonstrations last year, and protest camps sprouted up in city centres across the country.
About half a million Israelis took to the streets when the protest movement peaked last year. Demonstrations dwindled out soon after the government set up a committee it said would provide solutions to the wide array of social issues plaguing Israelis.
Protest leader Daphni Leef said that little has changed since then.
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/14/israeli-protester-fire-rally
"When people lose everything and they have nothing left to lose they lose it." - Gerald Celente
(Photo: AP/Ben Kelmer)
photo source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/14/israeli-protester-fire-rally
